A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.
The secretary
The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline Bontemps, participates in all the contests and under the name of Mr. Bontemps wins a beautiful Sunday. All arrive in Paris and in the premises of the Parisian Post Office attend popular broadcasts.
Jules Ferry
The voyages of Pierre Savorgnan de Brassa through Africa. This great explorer, the founder of Brazzaville (Congo), was born in Italy but chose France as his motherland.
12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.
le président du tribunal
A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy. There he discovers, with the discomfort of an old dusty century-old house, the sweetness of life, the love of a beautiful girl and the pleasure of doing nothing.
Maître Dorcel
A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover intervenes to prevent her from being happy and succeeds in driving away the one she loves. The young woman regains a taste for life thanks to her work and her friends.
The son of two teachers hits the road and becomes a singing success after being taken in as a protege by a kooky countess.
Un habitué du bistrot (uncredited)
An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a fairground magician, will return to her once more.
An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.
A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted to the latter's fiancée. The "sick", meanwhile, feels weaknesses for the wife.
Le Major
Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
Judex the vigilante enjoins crooked banker Maurice-Ernest Favraux to distribute his ill-gotten fortune to the city's poor. The thugs decide to kidnap the financier's daughter.
le professeur Bergmann
On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...
Chantecoq
Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.
Leopoldo Quintana
Leopoldo Quintana is a lawyer who, determined to reach power and capable of anything to get what he wants, uses blackmail and shady maneuvers to be appointed congressman for the Balearic Islands, then minister, and finally President of the Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government.
Maxime Ardouin - le délégué aux armées de la République
This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting in 1793.
Ferragus
An adaptation of the first part of Balzac's History of the Thirteen, centered on the secret society of the Thirteen and helmed by René Navarre in the titular role of the former convict who became a sublime father.
François Vidocq has deserted to go back to his wife and kids, so he becomes a thief. Unfortunately, he finds she had become Manon-la-blonde, mistress of a rich man named Ouvrard, and his children have disappeared. He offers his services to the chief of intelligence service and begins a fight against the Aristo, chief of the gang of the children of the sun. After a few years, he dismantles the gang, and finds both his sons. One has become a blackguard, the other a famous organist who is about to be knighted and will soon get married to his beloved.
Director
Director
Director
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the man who has come a long way
Director
the man who has come a long way
Jacques, un explorador que ha vuelto a Francia después de un largo viaje, desea casarse. Invitado por su amiga Marie-Laure, conoce a sus tres sobrinas, inteligentes y en edad de casarse.
The patriotic melodrama, set during WWI, revolves around a thief played by René Navarre.
El cofre de Toledo.
When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in time to rescue his beloved and save the city.
A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she can part with it. They waylay her and carry her off to a house where they demand from her the diamond. With a smile she shows them the receipt for a registered package as she had deemed it safer to send it by this means. Later she takes them off their guard and escapes. An exciting automobile chase now takes place, ending with the car in which the would-be diamond robbers are seated being hurled over the cliff to destruction.
De Moranges
A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
Fantômas / le banquier Nanteuil
Fantômas / Various Disguises
Un poderoso relato de las hazañas y crímenes del archivillano Fantomas mientras logra eludir la incansable persecución del inspector Juve.
René de Romiguières
When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.
Silent film
Breschard
A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.
Dervieux
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.
Jean Trévoux
A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to die. The woman doesn't know if it's her son or her husband (Rene Navarre) but history buffs will know who it is as it's April 10, 1912 and the husband is about to board the Titanic.
Le détective Dervieux
A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.
On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.
Adaptación libre de "El coronel Chabert" de Balzac.
Part of Feuillade's 'Life As It Is' series
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
Para pagar unas deudas, Bébé se hace pasar por ciego y pedir limosna.
The smuggler
The story revolves around a smuggler (René Navarre) who rescues a young lady trapped in the canyon. Some rock-climbing shots at the beginning of the film.
Le détective Julien Kieffer
A young inventor is kidnapped to force him to tell the secret of his invention, but he foils his captors thanks to a pen with invisible ink.
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est.
A beginning of a series of films directed by Louis Feuillade from 1911-1913
Le docteur Guillotin
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
Lisístrata lidera una rebelión de mujeres contra sus maridos. Hasta que estos no dejen de guerrear, ellas no les darán ningún beso.
Tras ver el espectáculo de un equilibrista, un hombre intenta imitarlo con funestos resultados.
Roussot
Huyendo de los revolucionarios, la marquesa de Saint Hilare confía un valioso cofre a su criada. La mujer lo ocultará en su casa y hará todo lo posible por evitar que lo encuentren.